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class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
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protect_from_forgery with: :exception
end
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class DecryptMessagesController < ApplicationController
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skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token
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def create
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id_mess = params[:id]
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@key = Rsa.find(id_mess)
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@decrypted = CreateDecrypted.new(decrypted: decrypt(params[:message], @key), id_key: id_mess)
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@decrypted.save
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render plain: @decrypted.decrypted
end
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private
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def decrypt(message, parameters)
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decrypted_message = String.new
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message = message.split("f")
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message = message.map {|e| e.to_i}
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message.each do |element|
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element = (element**parameters[:d]) % parameters[:n]
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decrypted_message << element.chr
end
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decrypted_message
end
end
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class EncryptMessagesController < ApplicationController
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skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token
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def create
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id_mess = params[:id]
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@key = Rsa.find(id_mess)
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@encrypted = CreateEncrypted.new(encrypted: encrypt(params[:message], @key), id_message: id_mess)
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@encrypted.save
#redirect_to :action => "show", :id_message => @encrypted[:id_message], :id => @encrypted[:id] and return 0
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render plain: @encrypted.id
end
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def show
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@encrypted = CreateEncrypted.find(params[:id])
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par = Hash.new
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par[:encrypted] = @encrypted.encrypted
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render json: par
end
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private
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def encrypt(message, parameters)
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encrypted_message = Array.new
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message.bytes.each do |byte|
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byte = ((byte**parameters[:e])% parameters[:n])
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encrypted_message.push(byte)
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encrypted_message.push("f")
end
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encrypted_message = encrypted_message.join
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encrypted_message
end
end
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class RsasController < ApplicationController
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protect_from_forgery except: :create
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def index
end
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def create
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if params.has_key?(:n) and params.has_key?(:e) and params.has_key?(:d)
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@RSA = Rsa.new(n: params[:n], e: params[:e], d: params[:d])
else
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parameters = new_key
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@RSA = Rsa.new(n: parameters[0], e: parameters[1], d: parameters[2])
end
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@RSA.save
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render plain: @RSA.id
end
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def show
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@key = Rsa.find(params[:id])
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par = Hash.new
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par[:n] = @key.n
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par[:e] = @key.e
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par[:d] = @key.d
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render json: par
end
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private
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def generate_rand
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seed = Random.new_seed
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while true
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a = Random.new.rand(1..1000)
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if is_prime? a then break
end
end
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a
end
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def is_prime? a
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state = true
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for i in 2...a
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if a%i == 0
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state = false
end
end
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state
end
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def new_key
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p = generate_rand
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q = generate_rand
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n = p*q
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lambda_n = (p-1).lcm(q-1)
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while true
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e = generate_rand
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if e < lambda_n and lambda_n % e != 0
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break
end
end
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for d_ in 1..lambda_n
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if (d_*e)%lambda_n == 1
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d = d_
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break
end
end
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toReturn = Array.new
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toReturn[0] = n
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toReturn[1] = e
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toReturn[2] = d
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toReturn
end
end
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module ApplicationHelper
end
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module DecryptMessagesHelper
end
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module EncryptMessagesHelper
end
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module RsasHelper
end
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class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
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self.abstract_class = true
end
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class CreateDecrypted < ApplicationRecord
end
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class CreateEncrypted < ApplicationRecord
end
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class Rsa < ApplicationRecord
end
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require_relative 'boot'
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require 'rails/all'
# Require the gems listed in Gemfile, including any gems
# you've limited to :test, :development, or :production.
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Bundler.require(*Rails.groups)
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module RSARails
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class Application < Rails::Application
# Initialize configuration defaults for originally generated Rails version.
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config.load_defaults 5.1
# Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those specified here.
# Application configuration should go into files in config/initializers
# -- all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.
end
end
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ENV['BUNDLE_GEMFILE'] ||= File.expand_path('../Gemfile', __dir__)
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require 'bundler/setup' # Set up gems listed in the Gemfile.
# Load the Rails application.
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require_relative 'application'
# Initialize the Rails application.
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Rails.application.initialize!
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Rails.application.configure do
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb.
# The test environment is used exclusively to run your application's
# test suite. You never need to work with it otherwise. Remember that
# your test database is "scratch space" for the test suite and is wiped
# and recreated between test runs. Don't rely on the data there!
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config.cache_classes = true
# Do not eager load code on boot. This avoids loading your whole application
# just for the purpose of running a single test. If you are using a tool that
# preloads Rails for running tests, you may have to set it to true.
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config.eager_load = false
# Configure public file server for tests with Cache-Control for performance.
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config.public_file_server.enabled = true
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config.public_file_server.headers = {
'Cache-Control' => "public, max-age=#{1.hour.seconds.to_i}"
}
# Show full error reports and disable caching.
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config.consider_all_requests_local = true
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config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
# Raise exceptions instead of rendering exception templates.
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config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions = false
# Disable request forgery protection in test environment.
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config.action_controller.allow_forgery_protection = false
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config.action_mailer.perform_caching = false
# Tell Action Mailer not to deliver emails to the real world.
# The :test delivery method accumulates sent emails in the
# ActionMailer::Base.deliveries array.
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config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :test
# Print deprecation notices to the stderr.
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config.active_support.deprecation = :stderr
# Raises error for missing translations
# config.action_view.raise_on_missing_translations = true
end
# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
# ActiveSupport::Reloader.to_prepare do
# ApplicationController.renderer.defaults.merge!(
# http_host: 'example.org',
# https: false
# )
# end
# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
# Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your assets.
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Rails.application.config.assets.version = '1.0'
# Add additional assets to the asset load path.
# Rails.application.config.assets.paths << Emoji.images_path
# Add Yarn node_modules folder to the asset load path.
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Rails.application.config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join('node_modules')
# Precompile additional assets.
# application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS in the app/assets
# folder are already added.
# Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += %w( admin.js admin.css )
# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
# You can add backtrace silencers for libraries that you're using but don't wish to see in your backtraces.
# Rails.backtrace_cleaner.add_silencer { |line| line =~ /my_noisy_library/ }
# You can also remove all the silencers if you're trying to debug a problem that might stem from framework code.
# Rails.backtrace_cleaner.remove_silencers!
# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
# Specify a serializer for the signed and encrypted cookie jars.
# Valid options are :json, :marshal, and :hybrid.
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Rails.application.config.action_dispatch.cookies_serializer = :json
# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
# Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log file.
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Rails.application.config.filter_parameters += [:password]
# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
# Add new inflection rules using the following format. Inflections
# are locale specific, and you may define rules for as many different
# locales as you wish. All of these examples are active by default:
# ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections(:en) do |inflect|
# inflect.plural /^(ox)$/i, '\1en'
# inflect.singular /^(ox)en/i, '\1'
# inflect.irregular 'person', 'people'
# inflect.uncountable %w( fish sheep )
# end
# These inflection rules are supported but not enabled by default:
# ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections(:en) do |inflect|
# inflect.acronym 'RESTful'
# end
# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
# Add new mime types for use in respond_to blocks:
# Mime::Type.register "text/richtext", :rtf
# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
# This file contains settings for ActionController::ParamsWrapper which
# is enabled by default.
# Enable parameter wrapping for JSON. You can disable this by setting :format to an empty array.
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ActiveSupport.on_load(:action_controller) do
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wrap_parameters format: [:json]
end
# To enable root element in JSON for ActiveRecord objects.
# ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do
# self.include_root_in_json = true
# end
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Rails.application.routes.draw do
# For details on the DSL available within this file, see http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
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resources 'rsas'
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post '/rsas/:id/encrypt_messages/', to: 'encrypt_messages#create'
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get '/rsas/:id_message/encrypt_messages/:id', to: 'encrypt_messages#show'
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post '/rsas/:id/decrypt_messages/', to: 'decrypt_messages#create'
end
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RSpec.describe DecryptMessagesController, :type => :controller do
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before(:all) do
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DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
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DatabaseCleaner.start
end
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context "POST /rsas/:id/decrypt_messages/"
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it "decrypts \"hello\"" do
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post :create, params: {id:3, message:"166f85f326f326f105f"}
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expect(response.body).to eq "hello"
end
end
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RSpec.describe EncryptMessagesController, :type => :controller do
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before(:all) do
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DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
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DatabaseCleaner.start
end
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context "POST /rsas/:id/encrypt_messages/"
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it "accepts a message and returns id" do
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post :create, params: {id: 3, message: "hello"}
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expect(CreateEncrypted.count).to eq 1
end
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context "GET /rsas/:id/encrypt_messages/:id"
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it "accepts id and returns json" do
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get :show, params: {id:"1", id_message:"3"}
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expect(response.body).to eq "{\"encrypted\":\"166f85f326f326f105f\"}"
end
end
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RSpec.describe RsasController, :type => :controller do
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before(:all) do
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DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
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DatabaseCleaner.start
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DatabaseCleaner.clean
end
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context "POST /rsas"
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it "accepts n=1, e=2, d=3" do
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post :create, params: {n:1, e:2, d:3}
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expect(Rsa.count).to eq 1
end
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it "accepts nothing" do
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post :create
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expect(Rsa.count).to eq 2
end
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context "GET /rsas/:id"
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it "returns JSON" do
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post :create, params: {n:358, e:163, d:83}
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get :show, params: {id:3}
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expect(response.body).to eq "{\"n\":358,\"e\":163,\"d\":83}"
end
end


Germany to bring home its first IS suspect from Syria
by AFPGermany will repatriate for the first time a suspected member of jihadist group IS and her children from a prison camp in northern Syria, the German foreign ministry said on Friday.
"We can confirm that three German children who were being held in northern Syria were able to travel to Iraq with their mother today. To our knowledge, all of them will travel on to Germany from there," a foreign ministry source told AFP.
The foreign ministry did not identify the IS suspect, but Spiegel magazine named her as Laura H., 30.
The weekly reported that the ministry were able to secure her return after weeks of negotiation with the help of an American aid organisation.
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According to the magazine, German authorities had been investigating the suspect since 2016 on suspicion of belonging to a terror organisation and neglect of her children.
H. is believed to have travelled to Syria from Giessen in western Germany in March 2016, and to have joined IS that summer.
She and her children have reportedly been held in the notoriously overcrowded Al Hol camp in northern Syria since December 2018.
The camp, which is run by the Kurdish militia YPG, hosts more than 70,000 refugees from Iraq and Syria and is the subject of continuing concern from aid agencies.
German security sources believe that around 80 German IS members are still in Syrian camps or prisons.


About
I’m a bioinformatician and received my Ph.D. from Boston University under Dr. Cynthia A. Bradham. While at the Bradham lab, my work spanned variety of projects and data modalities, with an emphasis on single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) and confocal microscopy. While at BU I gained expertise in scRNA-seq analysis and published a novel algorithm to accurately identify cell states in mixed-condition single-cell experiments. This project provided the analytical backbone of my later work to exhaustively characterize subpopulation diversification of Primary Mesenchyme cells (PMCs) in the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus during development using scRNA-seq perturbation experiments. This project included typical molecular pattern descriptions, but also spatiotemporal descriptions of embryonic locations by convolving scRNA-seq with single-molecule FISH confocal data. For more information, please see the abstract of my thesis.
As the only computational member of a developmental biology lab in a “maybe not so model” model organism, I wore a lot of hats and learned the ins-and-outs of variety of data sources and analytical techniques, including: bulk RNA-seq; scRNA-seq; gene-regulatory network inference, common analysis techniques in biomedical image analysis, including semantic segmentation and object identification; and the production of re-usable analysis software and pipelines.
Prior to my time at BU, I worked as a research assistant at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory providing statistical support on a variety of analyses, including proteomic and metabolomic projects. I received my Bachelor’s of Science from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, with degrees in both Biology and Mathematics. In my spare time, I enjoy cooking, exercising, and trying to convince my friends biking is actually the best way to get around Boston.
My CV.


Before Change
start_time = time.time()
steps += 1
feed_dict = self.model.make_feed_dict(src, src_len, tgt, tgt_len, do_dropout=True)
_, global_step, lossv = self.model.sess.run([self.train_op, self.global_step, self.loss], feed_dict=feed_dict)
total_loss += lossv
duration += time.time() - start_time
After Change
for batch_dict in ts:
start_time = time.time()
steps += 1
feed_dict = self.model.make_input(batch_dict, do_dropout=True)
vals = self.model.sess.run(fetches, feed_dict=feed_dict)
global_step = vals["global_step"]
lossv = vals["loss"]
total_loss += lossv
duration += time.time() - start_time


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Think Freelancing!!!
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"Not online are blogger suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs"
“These products are available on demand. Prices and quantity are subjective to availability."
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Thank you for purchasing Startup Framework. We hope that you’ll like this product and we did our best to make your job with Startup Framework easy and clear. Now you have all the components that will help you to build your Startup website. Try to combine and modify them the way you want.
We’ll be glad to see what you have managed to create on Framework. So, don’t be shy to share your results with us.
In this user guide we’ve collected the description and installation items of all the UI Kit components and recorded some video tutorials that’ll guide you from designing up to code. Also be sure to check out F.A.Q. page. There you’ll get many answers to your questions.
Let's startInstallation of Startup Framework doesn’t take much of your time. It’s easy!
Learn MoreStartup Framework based on Flat UI Free. You can add new elements using Flat UI Pro Version.
Learn MoreYou can leave your questions and comments on GitHub or e-mail us. Also we have F.A.Q.
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Fruit and Yogurt Ingredients/Toppings
Yogurt
Lowfat yogurt (cultured pasteurized nonfat milk, cream), evaporated cane sugar, water, coconut, natural flavor, fruit pectin, locust bean gum, guar gum, lemon juice concentrate, contains milk and coconut
Fruit
- Strawberries
- Oranges
- Apples
- Grapes
- Blueberries
- Granola


>From :Kennedy Bright. Dear, It is a sincere gratitude to acquaint you with this proposal for the purpose of investment in your country. I know this letter may come to you as a surprise since we have not met before. I am writing based on the information I gathered from the internet concerning you. My name is Kennedy Bright, the Son of late Chief Bright . Until his death was the director of DIAMOND Mining field of Kalangba District in SierraLeone. Before his death in a private hospital in Freetown, he disclosed to me the reason he was poisoned by his business associates. He revealed to me that he made a deposit of US$ 5,500,000 ( Five Million Five hundred Thousand United States Dollars).The money is deposited in a Security Company company.in Europe He also directed me where he kept the deposit certificate and agreement reached with the trust and finance company. He advised that I should leave for abroad after his death immediately to facilitate the claiming and transfer of this money to any country of my choice for proper investment. I am now in Abidjan, cote dI’Ivoire since one month as he has been buried. Besides,I strongly want to continue my education in your country and you would stand as my guardian and overseer of investment of this money. As soon as the money is transfered into your account , you will be compensated immensely out of the total sum. If you are willing to assist me in respect of this transaction, kindly contact me on my email address stated above, I will furnish you with more information.FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME THROUGH THE MAIL ADDRESS IS SAFE FOR THE TRANSACTION. Thanks and yours truly, Kennedy Bright __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com


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{% extends "admin/change_form.html" %} {% block object-tools-items %} {% for tool, help in objectactions %}


Node-RED provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows that can be deployed to the runtime in a single-click.
The version running here has been customised for the Heroku.
More information about Node-RED, including documentation, can be found at nodered.org.
This template instance of Node-RED is enough to get you started creating flows.
You may want to customise it for your needs, for example replacing this introduction page with your own, adding http authentication to the flow editor or adding new nodes to the palette.
By default, the editor is open for anyone to access and modify flows. To password-protect the editor:
Add the following user-defined variables.
NODE_RED_USERNAME
- the username to secure the editor withNODE_RED_PASSWORD
- the password to secure the editor withpackage.json
and add the required node package to the dependencies
section. The format is:
"node-red-node-package-name":"x.x.x"Where
x.x.x
is the desired version number.public
directory.settings.js
, delete the httpStatic
and httpAdminRoot
entries.


Chris Sells Living La Vida Longhorn
Here. "Chris Sells kicks off his inaugural installment of the Longhorn Foghorn column by defining the pillars of 'Longhorn,' the next generation of the Windows operating system, and providing an overview of each pillar."


A Tribute to Angus
About
Angus was released in 1995 and tells the story of an awkward, overweight, and self-conscious teenager as he goes through a rough year in school. Over the course of the movie we see Angus and his friend bullied in school and deal with even harder issues out of school, such as the passing of his grandfather. Angus winds up getting elected as king to the Winter Ball as a joke by the main bully in the film, Rick. As expected, things continue poorly leading up to the dance but after a confrontation with Rick at the dance Angus makes an impactful speech to confront Rick and lays out that there is no “normal” as everyone is different. He wins over the rest of the class as well as his crush, who was the queen of the Winter Ball.
Impact
Although I did not know it at the time, Angus did not have a great reception on release. I'm also sure that many people who view it today would also not give it much praise. But at the time I first saw Angus I was 8 years old and held many of the same "abnormal" traits that Angus, the character, had. I also saw these same traits in other people in my life. I really connected with the character and credit the movie for helping me to become an empathetic individual. To this day I still tell myself there is no “normal” and I try to pass that same mindset on to others I meet.
Watch
A trailer for Angus and options to purchase to watch the whole movie can be found on YouTube.


QSGGeometryNode Class
The QSGGeometryNode class is used for all rendered content in the scene graph. More...
| Header: | #include <QSGGeometryNode> |
| qmake: | QT += quick |
| Inherits: | QSGBasicGeometryNode |
| Inherited By: | QSGImageNode, QSGRectangleNode, QSGSimpleRectNode, and QSGSimpleTextureNode |
Public Functions
| QSGGeometryNode() | |
| ~QSGGeometryNode() | |
| QSGMaterial * | material() const |
| QSGMaterial * | opaqueMaterial() const |
| void | setMaterial(QSGMaterial *material) |
| void | setOpaqueMaterial(QSGMaterial *material) |
- 3 public functions inherited from QSGBasicGeometryNode
- 20 public functions inherited from QSGNode
Detailed Description
The QSGGeometryNode class is used for all rendered content in the scene graph.
The QSGGeometryNode consists of geometry and material. The geometry defines the mesh, the vertices and their structure, to be drawn. The Material defines how the shape is filled.
The following is a code snippet illustrating how to create a red line using a QSGGeometryNode:
QSGGeometry *geometry = new QSGGeometry(QSGGeometry::defaultAttributes_Point2D(), 2); geometry->setDrawingMode(GL_LINES); geometry->setLineWidth(3); geometry->vertexDataAsPoint2D()[0].set(0, 0); geometry->vertexDataAsPoint2D()[1].set(width(), height()); QSGFlatColorMaterial *material = new QSGFlatColorMaterial; material->setColor(QColor(255, 0, 0)); QSGGeometryNode *node = new QSGGeometryNode; node->setGeometry(geometry); node->setFlag(QSGNode::OwnsGeometry); node->setMaterial(material); node->setFlag(QSGNode::OwnsMaterial);
A geometry node must have both geometry and a normal material before it is added to the scene graph. When the geometry and materials are changed after the node has been added to the scene graph, the user should also mark them as dirty using QSGNode::markDirty().
The geometry node supports two types of materials, the opaqueMaterial and the normal material. The opaqueMaterial is used when the accumulated scene graph opacity at the time of rendering is 1. The primary use case is to special case opaque rendering to avoid an extra operation in the fragment shader can have significant performance impact on embedded graphics chips. The opaque material is optional.
Note: All classes with QSG prefix should be used solely on the scene graph's rendering thread. See Scene Graph and Rendering for more information.
See also QSGGeometry, QSGMaterial, and QSGSimpleMaterial.
Member Function Documentation
QSGGeometryNode::QSGGeometryNode()
Creates a new geometry node without geometry and material.
QSGGeometryNode::~QSGGeometryNode()
Deletes this geometry node.
The flags QSGNode::OwnsMaterial, QSGNode::OwnsOpaqueMaterial and QSGNode::OwnsGeometry decides whether the geometry node should also delete the materials and geometry. By default, these flags are disabled.
QSGMaterial *QSGGeometryNode::material() const
Returns the material of the QSGGeometryNode.
See also setMaterial().
QSGMaterial *QSGGeometryNode::opaqueMaterial() const
Returns the opaque material of the QSGGeometryNode.
See also setOpaqueMaterial().
void QSGGeometryNode::setMaterial(QSGMaterial *material)
Sets the material of this geometry node to material.
Geometry nodes must have a material before they can be added to the scene graph.
If the material is changed without calling setMaterial() again, the user must also mark the material as dirty using QSGNode::markDirty().
See also material().
void QSGGeometryNode::setOpaqueMaterial(QSGMaterial *material)
Sets the opaque material of this geometry to material.
The opaque material will be preferred by the renderer over the default material, as returned by the material() function, if it is not null and the geometry item has an inherited opacity of 1.
The opaqueness refers to scene graph opacity, the material is still allowed to set QSGMaterial::Blending to true and draw transparent pixels.
If the material is changed without calling setOpaqueMaterial() again, the user must also mark the opaque material as dirty using QSGNode::markDirty().
See also opaqueMaterial().


A Star Tribune analysis of more than 70,000 calls shows disparities in response times across the Twin Cities.
Rick Dunbar watched from his car as a man tried to force open the door to his daughter’s Minneapolis rental property. He called 911.
And then he waited — for 31 minutes. By the time police arrived at the Fulton neighborhood house, the man had left.
“If this guy would have just kicked the door in ... he could have took TVs and whatever else and they still would have never caught him,” Dunbar said of the 2017 incident.
The response might have been faster if Dunbar called from another neighborhood. But police take longer on average to respond to high-priority 911 calls near Minneapolis’ southern border, according to a Star Tribune analysis of more than 70,000 calls in Minneapolis and St. Paul. In some neighborhoods, median response times for these calls were 5 minutes longer than Minneapolis’ citywide median of just under 8 minutes.
Neal Hagberg frantically called 911 last fall near Minnehaha Parkway after two men chased him for several blocks during an attempted carjacking. It took about 12 minutes for officers to arrive. “I felt really vulnerable at the time that it took for them to get to me,” Hagberg said.
Fewer people call 911 from the areas where the analysis shows higher response times, police department officials said, leaving more officers clustered closer to parts of the city with more calls. Officers traveled more than 4 miles, from near Lake Street, to respond to Dunbar’s call.
“We have to walk that line between, ‘Do I add more officers over here so I can get response times down? Or do I add officers over here to try and reduce violent crime?’ ” said assistant chief Mike Kjos. “And it’s not an easy answer. There’s no formula.”
The department has already changed some procedures in response to Star Tribune inquiries. The department reviewed 50 high-priority calls across the city — chosen at random by the Star Tribune — that took more than 30 minutes before officers arrived. In a number of those cases, the department discovered, callers probably waited longer because officers were changing shifts. The data show that citywide median response times rose dramatically during the 6 a.m. hour, when the day shift begins and calls are also at their lowest volume.
Now, Kjos said, precincts will keep a squad car available during shift change.
“It brought to light a clear issue that needed to be addressed,” Kjos said.
The department also found that response times sometimes exceeded 30 minutes because the priority of the call had been escalated or downgraded as more information became available. Sometimes the situation was less urgent than first thought, or officers were busy during high-demand times like bar close. In other cases, call records did not offer a clear explanation for the delay.
A half-hour response to high-priority calls is not the norm, even in neighborhoods with higher response times. When it happens, 911 callers take notice.
Just east of Lake Nokomis, in the parking lot of Oxendale’s Market, a man who had just agreed to give another man a ride pulled a sawed-off shotgun out of his trunk and said, “You know what this is. Give it up.” The would-be passenger handed over $305, but then tackled the gunman and a melee ensued.
The driver fired the gun as the victim ran away. No one was hit.
Police arrived 40 minutes after the 911 call. The precinct inspector later wrote in an e-mail to the local council member that all precinct squads were tied up on other calls.
“I was dumbfounded by it, to say the least,” said Alan Zocher, Oxendale’s store manager. “I thought that would have been a big enough issue where they would have gotten here faster.”
The department regularly reports response times for the city’s five precincts, which are broad areas that include both crime hot spots and sleepier environs near the border. The Star Tribune used 2017 data from computer-aided dispatch to calculate the median times for much smaller areas, illustrating dramatic differences between border neighborhoods and the urban core.
Dispatchers determine whether a call is a high priority, and the severity of those calls ranged from a suspicious person to an assault in progress. One woman called to report hearing screaming while walking her dog. In another instance, people called about an emotionally disturbed man carrying a knife into neighborhood businesses. Others involved home and business alarm systems.
There was less evidence of disparate response times in St. Paul, according to an analysis of the dispatch data. St. Paul had about a fifth as many high-priority calls during the period analyzed, but priority classifications aren’t identical between the cities.
“I’ve got neighborhoods next to each other that have vastly different times,” said Minneapolis Council Member Jeremy Schroeder, who represents a ward bordering Richfield and the airport. “That’s disturbing.”
Median response times stretched from 12 to nearly 14 minutes in the Page, Morris Park, Wenonah, Diamond Lake, Armatage, Fulton and Shingle Creek neighborhoods. Most of that time is spent driving to the scene. By contrast, response times were closer to 7 minutes in neighborhoods like Jordan, Hawthorne and Whittier, which have some of the highest numbers of calls in the city.
“The people that live around those [Chain of Lakes] areas and get higher property taxes aren’t getting nearly the patrol that’s going on at Lake and Nicollet and Franklin and Lyndale,” said Lt. Bob Kroll, who leads the city’s police union. “They’re not getting the same amount of coverage. That’s always been a challenge. And it’s always been a shame.”
Some, including Kroll, say the data illustrate a need for more police officers. Police Chief Medaria Arradondo has said he would like to see the department grow from 888 officers to 1,000. But police department funding has been a controversial topic at the City Council.
“From a budget perspective, why don’t we staff our precincts appropriately? Because 911 callers need help now,” said Council Member Linea Palmisano, who represents the city’s southwestern corner. “Part of what we need is the political will to give police departments the resources they need to be effective first responders.”
Some of the response time differences are a result of the dispatch process. Kjos said officers are responsible for handling calls in their respective response zones, which are generally larger in areas with lower call volumes.
“I think that it’s unfortunate that when you live in an area that doesn’t have very many calls, that that area tends to get to be a larger space for an individual squad,” Kjos said. “Which makes it more difficult to get from point A to point B in a timely manner.”
In Dunbar’s case, he later learned that the man trying to force his way into the house was probably an acquaintance of a tenant. Dunbar had to replace the door because it was so damaged from being kicked.
“It just seems like it’s taking longer and longer for them to respond,” Dunbar said.
 It sounded to her like a domestic disturbance.
“It was just very out of character for this neighborhood to have such noises in the middle of the day,” Friedman said. She called 911 to report what she heard, while second-guessing whether the call was warranted.
Her call took more than 20 minutes to be assigned to an available squad, which spent another 13 minutes driving to the scene. She hopes the response would be faster for other high-priority calls like an intruder.
“That’s too long for an emergency response,” Friedman said. “An emergency means fast.”


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Proactive Policing: A Summary of the Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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On the Potential of Incorporating Administrative Register Data Into Randomized Experiments
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by Herald StaffThe Athlete of the Week nominees for Dec.. 2-8. Voting closes at midnight Sunday. The winner will be announced on next week’s Prep Focus page. Each weekly winner will be included in an Athlete of the Month poll.
Sophie Averill | Everett | Girls Wrestling
Averill, a senior, won the 100-pound weight class Saturday at the Jump On In Tournament in Yelm. She helped the Seagulls to a fourth-place finish in the team standings.
Shae Dixon and Alex Jensen | Lakewood | Boys Basketball
Dixon, a junior, and Jensen, a senior, combined for eight of the Cougars’ 15 3-point field goals — four apiece — in an 82-76 win over Stanwood on Wednesday in the season opener for both teams. Dixon finished with 23 points. Jensen added 20.
Aksel Espeland, Darin Sedenius, Johnny Romero and Johnny Franke | Darrington | Boys Wrestling
Espeland (106 pounds), Sedenius (126), Romero (138) and Franke (220) each placed first in his weight class as the Loggers cruised to a first-place team finish at the Ocasta Invitational on Saturday.
Taras Fesiienko | Everett | Boys Basketball
Fesiienko, a junior guard, scored 43 points to lead the Seagulls to a 69-58 win over Cascade on Friday in the annual BruGull Fest game between city rivals.
Jasmine Ford | Oak Harbor | Girls Basketball
Ford, a senior, scored 20 points in the Wildcats’ 68-51 win over Mariner on Dec. 3. She then recorded a double-double (14 points, 15 rebounds) in the Wildcats’ 53-51 victory over Sedro-Woolley on Saturday.
Hannah Hvitved | Monroe | Girls Basketball
Hvitved, a senior, scored with one second remaining in regulation to force overtime in the Bearcats’ season opener Wednesday at Redmond. Monroe eventually lost, 43-38, but Hvitved recorded a double-double with 12 points and 14 rebounds.
Raigan Reed | Lake Stevens | Girls Basketball
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deppa [OPTIONS]
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deppa, jap. “bucktooth”, is a server implementation of the gopher protocol, specified in RFC 1436, written in Go. It can serve gophermaps, directories, plain text, markdown and binary files. Markdown files are converted to gophermaps on-the-fly (very quickly!). It is very lightweight and can handle a lot of traffic on low-end hardware.
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- -gc-interval INTERVAL The number of requests after which the garbage collector should trigger. Defaults to 1024.
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BUGS
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AUTHOR
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This vignette will run through the steps needed to produce an Excel report from SQL using {quickReport}. We’ll be looking at folder structures a bit, so we’ll load {fs} too:
Now we’ll use create_report()
to set up a project with the recommended folder structure:
create_report(path = ".")
create_report()
creates a project with several non-standard files and folders:
Excel
is used for storing Excel templates (and comes with one you can edit)Outputs
is the default folder where {quickReport} will try to place createdSQL
is used for storing SQL scripts that will be used to create a reportconfig.yml
can be used to configure an SQL database (powered by the {config} package)run-report.R
is an R script containing the minimal code needed to run the report.
dir_tree()
#> .
#> +-- config.yml
#> +-- Excel
#> | \-- template.xlsx
#> +-- Outputs
#> +-- R
#> +-- run-report.R
#> \-- SQL
{quickReport} provides a function to create an example SQLite database in memory containing 3 base datasets: mtcars
, beaver1
and C02
.
db <- example_db()
RSQLite::dbListTables(db)
#> [1] "CO2" "beaver1" "mtcars"
Let’s add some SQL scripts to the SQL directory. These are the files that will be used to create a report when we run report_from_sql()
# Define some SQL queries
queries <- list(
"Active Beavers.sql" = "select * from beaver1 where activ = 1;",
"High MPG Cars.sql" = "select mpg, cyl, disp from mtcars where mpg >= 30;",
"Mean C02 Uptake.sql" = "
select Treatment, avg(uptake) as uptake
from CO2
group by Treatment;
"
)
# Write the queries to the SQL directory
for (q in names(queries)) {
readr::write_file(queries[[q]], file.path("SQL", q))
}
Let’s check the SQL directory to confirm the files were written correctly:
dir_tree("SQL")
#> SQL
#> +-- Active Beavers.sql
#> +-- High MPG Cars.sql
#> \-- Mean C02 Uptake.sql
We now have what we need to create a {quickReport} report from SQL: a project with the correct file structure and an SQL database. With these in place, we can create a fairly decent report by simply running report_from_sql()
:
report_1 <- nice_filename("demo-report", dir = "Outputs")
report_from_sql(report_1, sql_connection = db, file_template = NULL)
#>
#> -- Creating new Excel report [1m[36m2021-08-26-jscott4-demo-report.xlsx[39m[22m ---------------
#> * Reading SQL scripts from [1m[36mSQL[39m[22m
#> * Reading [1m[36m3[39m[22m datasets from [1m[36m:memory:[39m[22m
#> ( ) Reading [1m[36mActive Beavers[39m[22m
#> ( ) Reading [1m[36mHigh MPG Cars[39m[22m
#> ( ) Reading [1m[36mMean C02 Uptake[39m[22m
#> * Initialising workbook using template [1m[36mdefault[39m[22m
#> * Populating [1m[36m1[39m[22m with report information
#> * Writing [1m[36m3[39m[22m datasets to workbook
#> ( ) Writing [1m[36mActive Beavers[39m[22m
#> ( ) Writing [1m[36mHigh MPG Cars[39m[22m
#> ( ) Writing [1m[36mMean C02 Uptake[39m[22m
#> * Saving workbook as [1m[36mOutputs/2021-08-26-jscott4-demo-report.xlsx[39m[22m
#> v File saved successfully!
We can see that a file Outputs/2021-08-26-jscott4-demo-report.xlsx
has been created. Let’s check the report to see what’s been written on each sheet. Notice that the sheets have been given the same names as our SQL scripts:
read_worksheets(report_1)[-1]
#> $`Active Beavers`
#> day time temp activ
#> 1 346 1730 37.07 1
#> 2 346 1950 37.10 1
#> 3 346 2150 37.53 1
#> 4 346 2230 37.25 1
#> 5 346 2300 37.24 1
#> 6 347 340 37.15 1
#>
#> $`High MPG Cars`
#> mpg cyl disp
#> 1 32.4 4 78.7
#> 2 30.4 4 75.7
#> 3 33.9 4 71.1
#> 4 30.4 4 95.1
#>
#> $`Mean C02 Uptake`
#> Treatment uptake
#> 1 chilled 23.78333
#> 2 nonchilled 30.64286
{quickReport} allows the use of ‘transformer’ functions when producing a report. These can be very useful when reporting from SQL, as many manipulations are much easier to do using R code instead of SQL. Let’s rerun the report, but this time we’ll apply some transformers too:
library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
# 'High MPG Cars' gets its own transformer that adds an extra column, while
# the unnamed function will be applied to all other datasets
transformers <- list(
"High MPG Cars" = function(data) data %>% mutate(best_mpg = mpg == max(mpg)),
function(data) data %>% mutate(across(where(is.numeric), round))
)
# Generate a second report using transformations
report_2 <- nice_filename("demo-report-transformed", dir = "Outputs")
report_from_sql(
report_2, sql_connection = db, transformers = transformers,
file_template = NULL
)
Looking at this second report, (conveniently named Outputs/2021-08-26-jscott4-demo-report-transformed.xlsx
), we can confirm that the transformations have been applied:
read_worksheets(report_2)[-1]
#> $`Active Beavers`
#> day time temp activ
#> 1 346 1730 37 1
#> 2 346 1950 37 1
#> 3 346 2150 38 1
#> 4 346 2230 37 1
#> 5 346 2300 37 1
#> 6 347 340 37 1
#>
#> $`High MPG Cars`
#> mpg cyl disp best_mpg
#> 1 32.4 4 78.7 FALSE
#> 2 30.4 4 75.7 FALSE
#> 3 33.9 4 71.1 TRUE
#> 4 30.4 4 95.1 FALSE
#>
#> $`Mean C02 Uptake`
#> Treatment uptake
#> 1 chilled 24
#> 2 nonchilled 31
To finish, let’s inspect the directory once more to see how our report looks:
dir_tree()
#> .
#> +-- config.yml
#> +-- Excel
#> | \-- template.xlsx
#> +-- Outputs
#> | +-- 2021-08-26-jscott4-demo-report-transformed.xlsx
#> | \-- 2021-08-26-jscott4-demo-report.xlsx
#> +-- R
#> +-- run-report.R
#> \-- SQL
#> +-- Active Beavers.sql
#> +-- High MPG Cars.sql
#> \-- Mean C02 Uptake.sql


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Now I was standing in an elevator, my hands covered with blood, a dead tech lying on the floor and a helpless occupant lying on the gurney. The other two techs had hit the emergency button and hastily gotten off at the next floor. Understandable. I had tried to explain to them about the poison pellet in Karen's arm, but they didn't stick around to consider the merits of my argument.
I set the gun down on the floor. This wasn't good.  Shit, what now? I had shot people before. I had killed them before. But this was different. They had given me mandatory therapy after the war. They might give me mandatory something else after this.
 The pellet. I should take care of that before anything else. I wiped my hands off on my nice white coat and rifled through one of the tech bags to find the C-knife and some local. This shouldn't be too hard. It was a lot like removing a rotted jack.
"I'm going to cut out the pellet. You ready?" I asked.
Karen's head jiggled in a way that could be construed as nodding. Good enough. I hastily gave her the local and cut a pretty sizable chunk out of her arm, and the whole elevator filled with a burning smell that was a welcome change from Karen's existing smell. After sealing the wound, I examined the shriveled chunk of meat.  I put it in a specimen jar. I might need it to avoid death row.
"OK, you're safe now," I said, not really knowing if this was true. Her monitor still looked OK.
What now?  But there was certainly a camera in the elevator plus two witnesses who knew me. What would the camera show? Me suddenly leaping across the elevator and shooting a guy in the head. That wasn't good. But how would I even begin to go on the run? I didn't know the first thing about identity shifting. And hadn't I done the right thing? I had saved her life. I had the pellet to prove it. I was a hero. Right?
I felt like reporting this to my CO. This didn't make any sense. But I should report it to somebody. I called the emergency service on my set and told it what had happened. It told me that officers would be sent over immediately. I tried to explain about the pellet, but this seemed to confuse it. It asked me if the pellet was armed. After a few minutes of confusing crosstalk, I just hung up.
As I waited and the minutes passed, the elevator felt very small and smelly and stifling. The blood around Elian covered the floor, surrounding my shoes. I imagined the cops coming up on another elevator as slow as this one.
"Everything's fine. You're in the real world now," I found myself saying, half-heartedly going through my standard patter. Absurd. Nothing was fine. Then the thought finally occurred to me. Why had Elian tried to kill this girl? Who wanted her dead? This was an important question. Whoever it was wouldn't be happy with me. Looking at her lying there, gasping, I knew it wouldn't be much use to ask her verbally. But she still had good jacks.
It was against protocol to plug into a feed-head's jacks. We were supposed to be getting them used to face-to-face conversation. But protocol did say you could plug in during an emergency. This definitely qualified. I told my set to find her jacks' wireless presence. A flood of messages hit the set, a backlog from the last couple minutes:
dont / dont / dont call police / bad idea / we have to go / go / go / police r coming / get out / go / go"
"What?" I murmured as I saw the messages.
 It felt like I had played this one before. What was that one with Zack Okonkwo?  Terrible story.
 I asked.
i am 1 of the bred
The Bred? I had heard the name before. I wasn't sure if it was from the news or a narrative. I had a vague idea that it was one of those old art protest collectives, like Anonymous or The Weather Underground. Or was it a feed cult? I asked my set, and it gave me a summary.
"The Bred is an alleged group of exploit experts who are thought to have been kidnapped at a young age and trained by a shadowy group, variously identified as the Human Front, the Restoration Alliance or the New Organ. They are the subject of a number of conspiracy theories, most of which assert that the internet's Combined Governance Corporation has been taken over by a sinister force, which the Bred are struggling against within the feedrealms and infraspaces. These theories generally involve discussions of mind control, feed conditioning, information war and the possibility of a Fascistic Singularity. Occult Singularians regard the Bred as the leaders of the new twelve tribes of Israel."
"Is this real or is this part of a narrative?"
My set replied, "The Bred are featured in many narratives, but are purported to hard-exist. There is no widely accepted proof of their existence."
Karen interrupted.
can i thru-gate ur set?
"What for?"
we must go now / now / now
I heard footsteps in the hallway. The elevator doors were still open, so I peeked my head out. The police were coming down the hall. A lot of police. In tactical gear. I intended to call to them, but that little lizard part of my brain told me to duck back into the elevator. There was a huge metal bang and found myself on the floor with the gun in my hand. A bullet had hit the elevator door frame.
Karen's messages unspooled onto my set.
i know Q / ruthless / she'll spoof calls to emergency / multiple calls / say ur an active shooter / let me thru-gate / NOW / u want to die?
I gave her through-gate access on my set. The elevator slammed shut, and my stomach leapt into my throat as we plunged downward.


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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Why an introductory class on environmental and ecological Engineering?
There are three main goals for this class, which belongs to the curriculum for the diploma of Bachelor of Science in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, at NC State University.
- Provide a strong biology background associated with environmentally and ecologically based treatment systems
- Provide the knowledge foundations on the biogeochemical principles of treatment of pollution in natural and man-made systems
- Introduce the principles to design treatment systems
As such this class has two main parts: the first part focuses on the biological and geochemical principles which an engineer must always keep in mind to understand how treatment occurs, and to make any design. The second part focuses on the reality of pollution and what an engineer can do to find solutions to treat the problem encountered.
1.2 Environmental and ecological Engineering
There are many learned definitions of Environmental and Ecological Engineering out there! I offer the two that appear in wikipedia as they are good enough for our purpose here.
Environmental engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of scientific and engineering principles for protection of human populations from the effects of adverse environmental factors; protection of environments, both local and global, from potentially deleterious effects of natural and human activities; and improvement of environmental quality.(in Wikipedia contributors (2018l))
and
Ecological engineering uses ecology and engineering to predict, design, construct or restore, and manage ecosystems that integrate “human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both”(in Wikipedia contributors (2018m))
All right, does this help? In practice, the core of environmental engineering activities deals with waste associated with human activities. As such,
Environmental engineering involves waste water management, air pollution control, recycling, waste disposal, radiation protection, industrial hygiene, animal agriculture, environmental sustainability, public health and environmental engineering law (Wikipedia contributors 2018l).
Typical examples of treatment systems, which we associate with environmental engineering, include waste water treatment plants, either for human and animal wastes and sanitation systems. In the agricultural field, environmental engineering also applies to drainage engineering and management to improve water quality, as well as air quality in animal housing.
Comparatively, ecological engineering deals less with waste and more with natural aquatic systems, often in an effort to either restore their ecological functioning, and/or to create treatment systems that use some ‘green methods’ to abate pollution loads. Typical examples of treatment systems, which we associate with ecological engineering, include riparian zones, streams, wetlands, bioretention zones, or woodchip bioreactors.
Obviously, there are lots of overlap between environmental and ecological engineering and I find that the differences between the two can be a bit artificial. One thing for sure is that at the introductory level, there are no reasons to differentiate them because the principles are the same. This class will therefore not insist on differentiating both, and will focus, rather, on providing enough of chemistry, biology, biogeochemistry, and engineering, to provide a solid foundation for students to understand and design treatment systems that can improve water quality.
1.3 Excess nutrients in rural aquatic environements
The field of application of this class is excess nutrient and sediment loads generated by human activities, their consequences on aquatic ecosystems, and the processes involved to improve and protect ground- and surface water quality in watersheds. This class is therefore going to focus mostly on water, although gaseous emissions will be considered at times. There is a niche in disturbed, nutrient rich, often rural environments, where we perceive there is a need for an integrated and horizontal delivery of knowledge spanning from electron orbitals, biochemistry, cell microbiology, hydrological functioning, process kinetics modeling, and treatment system design.
The physical objects used as foundation for this class include naturally occurring and human-designed filters, which may reduce excess nutrient concentrations and loads in rural and suburban environments. Systems reviewed include wetlands, riparian buffers and vegetated filter strips, woodchip bioreactors, streams, stormwater ponds and bioretention zones. This book uses excess nitrogen as the core parameter where the principles of biogeochemical processes are illustrated, and may apply to other fields of application. In summary, this book provides introduction to the basic necessary biogeochemical knowledge to answer these questions:
- How do wetlands, streams, riparian zones, woodchip bioreactors, and other ecologically based treatment systems filter excess nutrient out of the aquatic environment?
- How can we as a society or as ecological engineers and as environmental scientists use or design treatment systems to filter out excess nutrients?
1.4 Pollution flow charts
This book is intrinsically related to the concept of pollution, the consequences of pollution, and what can be done about it.
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change (Wikipedia contributors 2018j). Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities, leading to degradation of aquatic ecosystems (Wikipedia contributors 2018h)
The goals of environmental and ecological engineers and scientists are to reduce pollution, and in our case improve water quality. The concept of water pollution implies that there is a source of contamination, contaminants, and at the end, adverse consequences on aquatic ecosystems, but also on human health. It is interesting to realize that there is almost an infinite number of ‘pathways’ from a pollution source to its consequences.
To replace the field of application of the biogeochemical processes described in this book, one can take an example of a pathway from contaminants to consequences to illustrate the knowledge areas this book focuses on. The most spectacular events are usually reported in the press, which has been extremely instrumental in increasing the global awareness at all levels, and in many cases have triggered regulation changes. The most infamous case was when the Cuyahoga River repeatedly catching on fire near Cleveland caught the attention of the Time Magazine in 1969 (Latson 2015), eventually leading to the Clean Water Act in 1972 (Wikipedia contributors 2018i).
Newspaper articles relating and explaining the causes and consequences of pollution are remarkable in many ways: they have a way to encapsulate much information, in simple and concise terms. Since most scientists and engineers are pretty good visual learners, a complementary approach to written articles can be visual objects. Telling the same story in the form of a flow chart translating a two page article in one visual object can be very effective in a class setting. For this, I have created a simple template to derive such ‘pollution flow charts’.
A list of symbols illustrating the important steps between the pollution cause(s) to its consequence(s) are proposed in Table 1.1 below.
| Illustrated Symbol shape | Symbol shape | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Label shape | list of all the Non Point Sources (NPS) and point sources (PS) | |
| Rectangle | lists all the direct pollutants resulting from the source(s) | |
| Diamond | vector(s) of the pollutant(s). Often several | |
| Rounded rectangle | receiving air or water bodies. Often several | |
| Disk | macroscale consequence(s), often visible | |
| Heart | lists all the health risks identified | |
| Pentagon | lists all the identified environmental consequences |
Equipped with this tool box, it is possible to visually summarize the flow of pollution for most situations. In 2017, an article was written by Lisa W. Foderaro about the causes and consequences of dysfunctional septic tanks in Long Island, NY, USA. It takes the reader between 5 to 10 min to read the article. I let the reader do just that here.
‘Dead Rivers, Closed Beaches’: A Water Crisis on Long Island
By LISA W. FODERARO MAY 8, 2017
OAKDALE, N.Y. — The Great South Bay, flanked by Fire Island and the South Shore of Long Island, once produced half the shellfish consumed in the United States, and supported 6,000 jobs in the early 1970s.
Since then, the health of the bay has declined. Housing development meant more septic tanks depositing more nitrogen in the ground. The nitrogen flowed to rivers and the Great South Bay, leading to algae blooms. It depleted salt marshes that serve as fish habitat and suppressed oxygen levels.
One result is that the shellfish industry has all but collapsed. The annual harvest of hard clams, for example, has fallen more than 90 percent since 1980.
After sweeping legislation that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed in April, Suffolk County and other local governments in New York are hoping to deal with their aging — or absent — sewer lines, drinking water systems and other water infrastructure. The law, the Clean Water Infrastructure Act, allocates $2.5 billion to a variety of projects, as concerns about the safety of drinking water are growing.
Across the United States, impressive gains in water quality were made in the decades after passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972. But courts have generally ruled that the federal law was designed to address surface water contamination, and are divided about its application to tainted groundwater. As a result, problems from industrial pollution and untreated sewage have persisted.
The water quality problem is acute in Suffolk County. With 360,000 septic systems, Suffolk has roughly the same number as all of New Jersey. For years, nitrogen from leaky septic tanks has seeped into groundwater and eventually into rivers and bays.
“What we have been doing for decades is just managing the decline of water quality,” said Steven Bellone, the Suffolk County executive. “Every water body is listed as impaired. We have dead rivers, closed beaches, harmful algal blooms.
Before signing the law on Long Island in late April, Mr. Cuomo noted that a quarter of New York’s 610 sewage treatment plants were operating past their useful life.
“We’re living off the legacy not of our parents but of our grandparents,” he said.
The new state act, which spans five years, will among other things provide $1.5 billion in grants for water infrastructure improvements, $75 million in rebates to help homeowners replace septic systems and $110 million to protect land in watersheds. The money significantly expands a similar state infrastructure fund that over the last few years made $400 million available to communities.
In addition to the new water infrastructure financing, the state budget allotted $40 million to build two sewer systems in business districts on the North Shore in Suffolk County. And there was $5 million for Suffolk County and the Center for Clean Water Technology at Stony Brook University to develop new methods of removing contaminants from drinking water.
While it was one of the more significant investments to emerge from the state budget, some say it should be viewed as a down payment. Steve Englebright, a state assemblyman who heads the Environmental Conservation Committee, has said $80 billion to $100 billion is required to address the state’s aging water infrastructure.
On Long Island, which is already grappling with hazardous waste at scores of active Superfund sites, the geology poses special challenges. With scant wastewater treatment, Suffolk County sits atop an aquifer that provides virtually all of its drinking water, and the sandy soil allows nitrogen to seep into it.
Nassau County, just west of Suffolk, has many more homes using sewers than Suffolk, where 75 percent of the population relies on septic systems. The main reason that a county as populous as Suffolk has remained on septic systems, county officials say, is the legacy of the last attempt at installing a system — the infamous Southwest Sewer District.
The sewer system, covering parts of the towns of Islip and Babylon, was eventually built. But the project, which started coming on line in 1981, became so mired in corruption, delays and cost overruns that it spooked future elected officials.
“It was the biggest scandal in the county’s history,” Mr. Bellone said. “The appetite politically to do anything on this issue was nonexistent after that. It effectively killed sewering here for decades.”
Suffolk County is eager to catch up to Nassau on wastewater treatment, but officials say new sewer systems are prohibitively expensive. One project on the drawing board, for instance, will cover about 8,200 parcels bordering four rivers that feed into the Great South Bay. The price tag is $383 million.
Instead, the county’s strategy is to coax homeowners to replace antiquated septic tanks with high-tech “denitrification systems” — small units that cost more than older septic systems but remove most of the nitrogen from wastewater. Mr. Bellone said Suffolk hoped to tap the new state fund to help property owners acquire the systems.
The same article can be summarized very efficiently in a pollution flow chart illustrated in Figure 1.1. The causes of this pollution are leaky and dysfunctional septic tanks. The results are that untreated nitrogen finds its way through the groundwater (GW), which is the vector in this article. The article mentions two receiving bodies: the bay and the aquifer. There are potential health risks associated with too much nitrogen added in the aquifer which serves as a drinking water supply (e.g., drinking water limit in the US for nitrate is 10 mg N/L). The article particularly insists on the fact that much of the excess nitrogen finds its way to rivers and end up in the Great South Bay, where algal blooms form. The consequences of the algal blooms are all linked to the depletion of oxygen generated from the large amount of organic matter decaying in the bay.
1.5 Key elements of the flow charts
The pollution flow charts (Table 1.1) show several important aspects of pollution, which always include, at least, these elements:
- There is a source,
- This source generates a single or a suite of pollutants, which is or are the ones triggering consequences
- These compounds are carried away from their source thanks to a vector, gaseous or aqueous. In the latter case, this can be groundwater, surface runoff, or surface water like streams and rivers.
- We call receiving bodies the volumes of air or water where the consequences of pollutants are identified
- Pollutants are not identified as such unless there are identifiable consequences. We like to differentiate between:
- consequences on human health
- all other consequences are called here environmental consequences
- Because the consequences can be sequential in time and/or space, we have added another category, which we call the visible or macroscale
1.6 Spatial dichotomy between pollution sources and consequences
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which can be either precisely located, in which case, we associate the expression Point Source (PS) pollution, or not precisely located and is diffuse in the landscape, in which case we associate the expression Non Point Source pollution or diffuse pollution.
This book aims at providing enough details about the important steps of this and other pollution flow charts. In particular, this book aims at providing the necessary knowledge for environmental scientists and engineers to be able to describe with confidence the processes and the actors at play in a generic pollution chart. As such this book addresses the conditions that lead to algal blooms, and provides enough phycology knowledge to describe the major bloom forming groups. The book particularly insists on the biogeochemical processes associated with eutrophication, which are very close to the ones at play in treatment systems naturally existing or man-designed to reduce pollutant loads closest to their source (Figure 1.2)
1.7 Scope of this book
The scope of this book is to provide an ‘horizontal’ view across disciplines going from electron orbitals to removal efficacies at the treatment scale. For this, this book reviews and puts together into one ensemble the necessary knowledge from desciplines including chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology, microbiology, thermochemistry, modeling, and ecological engineering. The book first reviews the electron allocations on atoms and molecule, which are at the source of the generation and storage of energy in the biosphere. The book introduces the concept of redox reactions that apply to environmental and ecological engineering, and uses wetlands as a model for both. The book presents the functioning of several treatment systems, and uses wetlands as a teaching model where most of the biogeochemical processes important in ecological engineering are present. The book presents process kinetics and models often applied in ecological engineering.
1.8 Exercises
The goal of the exercises below is to draw pollution flow charts from articles published in the press and to realize that there always are at least a contaminant source, a vector, a receiving body, and environmental and health consequences. Not all elements are necessarily reported in all press articles, but they generally are. Good luck!
Florida Red Tide: Wildlife Advocate Stunned by Toll on Fish
By The Associated Press
Aug. 22, 2018
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The head of one of the U.S.’s largest environmental nonprofits says he was stunned Wednesday to see thousands of dead fish and devastation to other marine life from a red tide off hugging southwest Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Collin O’Mara, the president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, went on Wednesday with a charter boat captain in waters off Southwest Florida coast in the Sanibel Island area. He reported thousands and thousands of dead fish, eels and horseshoe crabs in the Gulf of Mexico. He also saw the carcasses of six-foot-long Goliath grouper fish.
“I was astounded by the level of carnage that we saw,” said O’Mara. “Of all the disasters I’ve seen in the past decade, this is probably the most visual.”
The toxic algae bloom has overrun Florida’s southern Gulf Coast this summer. It’s hugging much of Florida’s peninsula, from Naples in the south to Bradenton some 150 miles north.
Red tide is a natural occurrence that happens due to the presence of nutrients in salt water and an organism called a dinoflagellate. This bloom started in November.
The last toxic bloom in the Gulf happened between 2004-2006. The algae bloom can cause breathing problems in some people, and because of the smell left behind by the dead fish, has cleared vacationers from some tourist areas.
But the main impact has been on the wildlife, and experts are concerned.
“It was actually pretty overwhelming being there,” said O’Mara, who also toured another part of the state on Wednesday to look at a different algae crisis. He visited areas affected by blue-green algae, which is in freshwater.
Heavy May rains caused Lake Okeechobee to discharge water containing blue-green algae into rivers and canals. The bright green sludge oozed onto docks, dams and rivers.
People often get the two algae confused, because they’re occurring simultaneously, and in some cases, in the same county.
The red tide algae in the Gulf has killed at least 452 sea turtles, nearly 100 manatees, 11 dolphins and tons of fish. County maintenance crews have had to use backhoes to scoop up all the dead marine life on the beaches.
Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in seven counties along Florida’s Gulf that have been overrun by the pungent bloom. He also ordered $1.5 million to be spent on various clean-up efforts and to help business impacted by dwindling tourists.
By The Editorial Board
Oct. 25, 2016
North Carolina’s Noxious Pig Farms
The landscape of eastern North Carolina is dotted with giant pools of bright pink sludge. These are waste lagoons, where industrial farms across the state dispose of billions of gallons of untreated pig urine and feces every year.
The waste can carry E. coli, salmonella, cryptosporidium and other bacteria that can lead to serious illness or death if they spread to humans. After Hurricane Matthew deluged North Carolina this month, at least 14 of the lagoons flooded.
Environmental advocates and state officials have been flying over regions to identify overflowing lagoons where floodwaters have become mixed with the waste, a public health hazard that could last for weeks as bacteria flow into rivers and streams, potentially sickening those who come into contact with those waters.
Bacteria can also contaminate groundwater, the main source of drinking water for more than three million North Carolinians. Meanwhile, the nitrogen and phosphorus in hog waste can kill fish and damage ecosystems. State officials are now beginning to test rivers to assess the level of contamination.
In states where hog farmers use waste lagoons, like North Carolina and Illinois, flooding is a serious hazard that may become more frequent as climate change leads to more severe storms. Even under normal conditions, lagoons can produce dangerous gases, noxious smells and dust containing hog waste. People living near these lagoons are at increased risk of asthma, diarrhea, eye irritation, depression and other health problems.
A research program at North Carolina State University has found several safer waste-disposal methods, including one that converts nitrogen in waste into harmless nitrogen gas and uses another process to eliminate harmful bacteria.
North Carolina took steps toward protecting its residents by passing a moratorium on new lagoons in 1997 and making it permanent in 2007. But around 4,000 lagoons constructed before 1997 remain in active use. Unless North Carolina and other states require agriculture companies to change their waste-disposal methods, what happened after Hurricane Matthew will happen again.
References
Wikipedia contributors. 2018l. “Environmental Engineering.” https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_engineering&oldid=869679988. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_engineering&oldid=869679988.
Wikipedia contributors. 2018m. “Ecological Engineering.” https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecological_engineering&oldid=873115900. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecological_engineering&oldid=873115900.
Wikipedia contributors. 2018j. “Pollution.” https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pollution&oldid=855828820. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pollution&oldid=855828820.
Wikipedia contributors. 2018h. “Water Pollution.” https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_pollution&oldid=845540314. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_pollution&oldid=845540314.
Latson, Jennifer. 2015. “The Burning River That Sparked a Revolution.” Time, June. http://time.com/3921976/cuyahoga-fire/.
Wikipedia contributors. 2018i. “Clean Water Act.” https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clean_Water_Act&oldid=854501784. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clean_Water_Act&oldid=854501784.


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Thoughts on Economic Impact of India's Monetary Demonetization
Prime Minister and his team have embarked on a path-breaking move to weed out multiple corruption, black money, counterfeiting of currency.
This is an attempt to structure my thoughts, and capture them for future review. This is a very preliminary analysis, and I am sure, some of the assumptions would not sound smart in weeks to come, as the economic picture unfolds:
Short-term Impacts
- Stimulus: Assuming that 20-25% of "conversion" of 500 & 1000 notes happen via people who do not own the currency, and assuming an 8-10% conversion commission, about Rs. 25000 to 35000 Cr will be "earned" by people at the lower end of economic pyramid, in the coming few weeks. This would be equivalent to a massive economic stimulus. This is expected to be spent quite soon, and predominantly on essential items.
- Economic slowdown: There is a sharp ongoing slowdown in consumer spending. This should, of course, start easing as cash starts moving into the system. But it is likely that it would take several months for demand to normalize. And for some sectors whose spending origin is from black money (like luxury retail for example), the damage may be permanent.
- Working Capital Logjam: A significant part of the Indian economy's supply chain is managed with cash payments (even if it is not black economy). Demonetization is leading to dislocation in debtors settlement, leading to slowdown in supply of fresh goods.
Medium-term Impacts
- Pseudo-Tightening: Assuming that 20% of the 500/1000 notes do not get into the system for deposit/exchange, it would amount to a "wealth destruction" of about Rs. 3 Lac Cr! This should lead to demand destruction of discretionary items, consumed by people who would lose this large corpus.
- Real Estate slowdown: This sector is notorious for investors "parking/investing" cash as part of the purchase. With lack of cash availability post the demonetization, real estate prices are expected to correct and remain soft. However, expected drop in interest rates could be a driver for long-term demand in real estate.
- Increase in Gold demand: Not sure if this is temporary, but there has been a surge in people converting black money into Gold/Silver, that too at inflated prices (20 to 25% premium). While Gold is often purchased with black money, demonetization could actually make Gold look more attractive to the unaccounted cash, as Gold/Silver cannot be demonetized/counterfeited!
- Drop in Inflation: Current drop in demand/business should lead to a drop in inflation, if not a straight temporary deflation.
Structural Impacts
- Negative-Wealth Effect: Apart from the estimated Rs 3 Lac Cr loss of cash, sections of the public will also feel the effect of loss of additional wealth (cash loss, drop in real estate values, drop in stock market valuations etc). This is going to impact consumption, especially in discretionary side. A big plus could be the moderation in vulgar display of wealth in Indian weddings!
- Fall in Interest Rates: Excess cash with Banks will lead them to invest in Treasuries/Bonds. This should drive interest rates lower which would be a positive for economy in general.
- Redistribution of Wealth: The bulk of wealth destruction should be for the top-1% rich guys. Demonetization does nothing much to the common man, but the serious dent on the "do-number" rich is a de-facto wealth transfer to the have-nots.
- Increasing Share of Formal Economy: This should be driven by two factors: a) Challenges which the cash-based businesses are facing, and b) genuine intent of businessmen to reform and move towards formal/cheque-based economy. This should lead to improvement in prospects of genuine businesses.
- Drop in Corruption: Hopefully, the huge challenges currently being faced by traditional hoarders of cash, should lead people to reform and move away from rampant corruption.
- Clean-up of Electoral Politics: Most opposition parties are making hue and cry and are possibly squirming due to the loss of resources they have hoarded. Effect of demonetization should be evident in the curtailment of "resources" of political parties. Hopefully, this leads to long-term clean-up of the extremely dirty scene in electoral politics of India.
Overall, this move reinforces my confidence that India is on the way to achieve its erstwhile glory!
Jai Hind.


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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died * 1/2 (out of * * * * )
Directed by Aris Illiopulous. Cast: Billy Zane, Sandra Bernhard, John Ritter, Tippi Hedren, David Ward, Nicollette Sheridan, Christina Ricci, Steven Weber, Will Patton, Karen Black, Tara Reid, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Eartha Kitt, Rick Schroder, Michael Greene, Kathleen Robertson, Taylor Negron, Abraham Benrubi, Conrad Brooks, Ann Magnuson, Andrew McCarthy, Ron Perlman, Max Perlich, Summer Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Carel Struycken, Vampira, Kathleen Wood. 1999 - 91 minutes (Opens 9/3 at NYC's The Screening Room). Not Rated (equivalent of a PG-13 or R for partial nudity and violence). Reviewed July 14, 1999.
Well, here's an odd little number with an interesting history. Written by the late, not-great Edward D. Wood (director of two of the worst films ever made, "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Glen or Glenda"), "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died" was one of his long-lost screenplays that was recovered years ago, but his widow, Kathleen Wood, would not agree for anyone to produce it until a director was found that would stay very close to the written page. The person for the job happened to be Aris Illiopulous, and in translation to the screen, the director has made a movie without a line of spoken dialogue, and with an all-star cast who constantly ham it up in pure Ed Wood fashion. Aside from Billy Zane, every actor appears only for a brief cameo, each of which are so unsatisfying that the fresh stars (Christina Ricci, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Rick Schroder, Tara Reid), veteran performers (Tippi Hedren, John Ritter, Will Patton), and camp divas (Eartha Kitt, Karen Black, Nicollette Sheridan) come off as mere distractions that hurt, rather than help, the film as a whole.
The picture begins as a mental hospital inmate, billed as The Thief (Billy Zane), dresses in a nurse's uniform and escapes. Looking for money, he shoots and kills a loan shark at a bank and instantly becomes a wanted man. While at what he thinks is the funeral of the loan shark, The Thief spies on the four mourners (Sandra Bernhard, Tippi Hedren, Michael Greene, John Ritter) whom he later suspects stole the money he hid in one of the graves, and stalks each one, hoping to find his money. Or something like that.
"I Woke Up Early the Day I Died" goes off in all sorts of directions after this basic set-up, as we also briefly (and I mean very briefly) meet cops (Andrew McCarthy, Steven Weber, Rick Shroder), a preacher (Will Patton), a teenage hooker (Christina Ricci), an undertaker (Carel Struyken) and his assistant (Max Perlich), a boy and girl at a beach (Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Summer Phoenix) who find a dead body after it plunges off a cliff, a singer (Eartha Kitt), a bar waitress (Tara Reid), and a ballroom woman (Nicollette Sheridan). I couldn't really explain too much more of the story in fear that it would simply get far too confusing, but suffice to say, the film concludes on the day The Thief gets up early before he dies.
Empty would be the perfect word to describe this obviously extremely low-budget picture (which Zane also produced). Although it is questionable if the film really is exactly like the Ed Wood script, it certainly has the look and feel of one of his godawful, but lovingly-made features from the '50s and '60s, which is actually a negative thing. As much as Wood loved the art of film, the truth was that he had no real talent, and this latest incarnation only proves such a thing, as the story and plot developments are inept, hollow, and vacant of any human emotions. Never do we identify with The Thief, or even understand who he really is, and everyone else is a famous person who made the film for no sane reason, since the movie never gives them a chance to do anything but camp up the proceedings (as if they already weren't camped-up enough).
Writing this approximately four days since I saw the film, it has already become foggy in my memory, so don't count on having it stick in your mind for more than the 90-minute running time. If anything, "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died" is an interesting failure. Choosing not to include any words (aside from the lyrics on the soundtrack which, by the way, are pretty memorable songs, more so than the movie) was a fairly courageous move on Illiopulous's part, and I also liked the idea of having portions of the script occasionally superimpose over a scene, so as to fill us in on what exactly is going on. It's just too bad that the talented array of actors assembled for this production have nothing to do but walk on and walk off; with a good script, they could have brought us a, no doubt, showstopper. As is, "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died" comes off as a gimmicky experiment that does not pay off, and is unable to rise above the thin material. Like all of the films Ed Wood directed, this new movie is a pure and simple dud.
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Box Office: ‘Commando 3’ gets off to a poor start
by BizAsia CorrespondentThis weekend’s release ‘Commando 3’ has got off to a poor start, with business of around 10% in morning trading in India.
According to Box Office India, the film’s opening is said to be on par with ‘Marjaavaan’, which released earlier this month. However, the latter had good music and a popular star cast to go with it, unlike ‘Commando 3’.
The first two ‘Commando’ films also opened with a similar response but picked up during their first weekend of release. ‘Commando’ opened up with Rs. 3,43,00,000 in 2013 and ‘Commando 2’ had business of around Rs. 4,51,00,000 in 2017. Whether ‘Commando 3’ will follow the same pattern, remains to be seen.
‘Hotel Mumbai’ released in various languages, may do well at big multiplexes.


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One year scale score growth for Kiara Aman from Grade 4 to Grade 5 is -46. To reach a level of proficiency in three years, the student must achieve an average scale score growth of 18.7 during each of the following three years. The actual one year growth rate is lower than the rate that must be maintained to achieve a level of proficiency.
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| Current School: | 30-001-8286 Mary Stark Elem School (0K05) |
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| 4 | 660 | P | 68 | Fall'09 | Mary Stark Elem School | |
| 5 | 614 | N | 4 | 614 | Fall'10 | Mary Stark Elem School |
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Pressure Drop: 5 Investing Themes For Winter
by Christopher DhanrajSummary
- The iShares Investment Strategy team discusses five major investor themes for the weeks ahead in our latest publications.
- Defensive sectors have outperformed cyclicals this year against a backdrop of slowing growth and falling interest rates.
- However, we expect central bank easing could provide a floor for growth in the coming months.
As we head towards the final weeks of 2019, Chris discusses some ways to navigate markets.
"Pressure Drop," the classic Toots and the Maytals song, comes to mind as we see a de-escalation in trade tensions with China, diminishing risks of a no-deal Brexit and few signs that the record U.S. economic expansion is ending or reversing. Still, persistent trade uncertainty is denting business confidence and spending, particularly the longer-term risk of an unravelling of the global supply chain.
Against that backdrop, the iShares Investment Strategy team discusses five major investor themes for the weeks ahead in our latest publications, the Winter Investment Directions. Our take:
1. Within U.S. equities, be careful steering among defensive and cyclical sectors.
Defensive sectors have outperformed cyclicals this year against a backdrop of slowing growth and falling interest rates. However, we expect central bank easing could provide a floor for growth in the coming months. Among cyclicals, we remain constructive on technology, while we prefer less rate-sensitive sectors such as healthcare among defensives.
2. Among developed markets, a bottoming of the growth slowdown may help, but we still see a winter of discontent.
Trade uncertainties and slowing growth have taken a toll on developed world stocks outside the United States. But not all DMs are created equal, and there are signs that the global growth slowdown has hit bottom, while central bank easing could help. We are neutral on Europe and underweight Japan.
3. Although a trade truce helps China, the slowing growth outlook warrants a cautious approach.
A temporary trade truce with the United States provided some optimism around China over the last month. However, China's growth slowdown has become more pronounced. Investors may want to consider EM ex-China exposures to hedge out the potential risks associated with a Chinese slowdown and any potential negative trade news.
4. Within fixed income, among the swings in yields consider seeking defense in investment grade credit.
U.S. government bond yields have responded to geopolitical risks over the past few months both ways, which underscores bonds' important role as a diversifier. Meanwhile, investment grade credit continues to lead sectoral performance, supported by easing financial conditions, a still-growing domestic backdrop and investors seeking high-quality yield. An up-in quality approach may allay fears over potential downgrades.
5. The outlook for value has made it a candidate for the comeback king.
We remain in an unfavorable environment for value, given slower growth and the return of "lower-for-longer" interest rates. Still, our outlook for value has improved and now stands at a neutral position as relative valuations appear quite cheap. Our outlooks for minimum volatility and quality have similarly improved.
This post originally appeared on the BlackRock Blog.
Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha editors.